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Researchers reveal what keeps bones in good function
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
What allows bones to maintain their capacity for self-renewal and health? Insights into the essential role of non-collagen protein compounds and how they support bone cells' ability to respond to external load have been found by a team from Charite Berlin.c
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Researchers reveal link between Huntington's disease mutation, developmen
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered a connection between metabolic abnormalities that affect the growth of the brain's oligodendrocyte cells and the mutation that results in Huntington's disease. They discovered that thiamine and biotin in large amounts can r
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Research: Network neuroscience theory best predictor of intelligence
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists have labored for decades to understand how brain structure and functional connectivity drive intelligence. A new analysis offers the clearest picture yet of how various brain regions and neural networks contribute to a person's problem-solving ability in a variety of contexts, a t
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Ants shed light on predicting evolution after hybridization
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that after multiple hybridisation events between two wood ant species distinct hybrid populations evolved independently towards the same direction, suggesting hybridisation is predictable.
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Study reveals chronic inflammation as cause for decline in breastfeeding
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Despite the fact that 80 percent of mothers nurse their newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that only 25 percent of women exclusively breastfeed their infants for the six months recommended by the United States Dietary Guidelines. Researchers found that social is
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Brain flexibility may hasten hearing improvements from cochlear implants
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Kickstarting the brain's natural ability to adjust to new circumstances, or neuroplasticity, improves how effectively a cochlear implant can restore hearing loss, a new study in deaf rats shows. The investigation, researchers say, may help explain the extreme variation in hearing improvement
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Researchers reveal traumatic brain injury, PTSD strong associations with A
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The influence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and genetic risk factors in a large cohort have never been studied simultaneously in the medical community.
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Earth's oldest remaining groundwater aged at 1.2 billion years old: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a study published in the journal 'Nature Communications', an international team of researchers discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in South Africa.
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Researchers find a protective probiotic for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A probiotic bacterium called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 prevents neurodegeneration in the C. elegans worm, an animal model used to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Researchers decode the secret language of photosynthesis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals.
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Warm water temperatures could affect local economies: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a team of researchers from York University and Queen's University, warming water temperatures could have far-reaching effects, from ecology to economy.
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Study confirms notion of birds building complex nests to protect their off
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers from Durham University, the British Trust for Ornithology, and Princeton University confirm the notion that birds build elaborate nests to protect their young ones from nest invaders like brood parasitic cuckoos.
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